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Miscellaneous Writings

Miscellaneous Writings

By Edmund Burke
Compiled and with a Foreword and Notes by Francis Canavan

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Pub Date

Apr 1999

Notes

Editor's foreword, editor's note, list of short titles, select bibliography on Edmund Burke.

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Cloth6 x 9
0-86597-168-4
978-0-86597-168-4
$27.00
Paperback6 x 9
0-86597-169-2
978-0-86597-169-1
$14.50

Description

In this companion volume to Select Works of Edmund Burke, Canavan has collected seven of Burke's major contributions to English political thinking on representation in Parliament, on economics, on the political oppression of the peoples of India and Ireland, and on the enslavement of African blacks. The volume concludes with a select bibliography on Edmund Burke.

Select Works of Edmund Burke: Volume I
Select Works of Edmund Burke: Volume II
Select Works of Edmund Burke: Volume III

Table of Contents

EDITOR’S FOREWORD ix
EDITOR’S NOTE xvii
SHORT TITLES xix

SPEECH TO THE ELECTORS OF BRISTOL (1774) 3
SPEECH ON THE REFORM OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT (1782) 15
TWO LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN IN BRISTOL ON THE TRADE OF IRELAND (1778) 31
THOUGHTS AND DETAILS ON SCARCITY (1795) 49
SPEECH ON FOX’S EAST INDIA BILL (1783) 93
A LETTER TO SIR HERCULES LANGRISHE ON THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND (1792) 193
SKETCH OF THE NEGRO CODE (1780) 253

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON EDMUND BURKE 283

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